Reputation of a Reputation

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Mon Dec 3 17:44:55 PST 2001


At 10:17 AM 12/3/01 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>As soon as people tumble to the fact that "Tom Clancy" has sold his 
>nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on 
>their words, then the reputation of "Tom Clancy" falls.

I was coming to that conclusion thanks to the public
exchange of certain extremely-high-rep folks here.

The conclusion: you can't sell a nym.  Nyms are best
managed by their initiator.  You can sell a nym's
recommendation  reliably but not a nym.  Is this true?

A grasshopper,






 






  








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